DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Beau James
On this episode, we begin a series of conversations with a southern wrestler, promoter, and author. He and one of his wrestlers also went viral recently in a national news story about Appalachian wrestling and politics. He will be featured in an upcoming HBO piece as well.
This episode features my friend and southern wrestling historian of the highest magnitude, Beau James, talking everything you want to know about people like Ron Wright, Whitey Caldwell, Ron Fuller, East Tennessee wrestling, Continental wrestling, and more.
Karl Stern is a pro wrestling historian specializing in the 1980s and pioneer era (pre-1900) of pro wrestling. He is an author who has written several books on wrestling and independently runs the When It Was Cool retro pop culture website.